Kanchana is from the Sanskrit kāñcanā (काञ्चना — golden, gold-colored). Kanchana (Vasundhara Devi, 1939-2018) was a Tamil and Telugu cinema actress — widely considered one of the leading ladies of South Indian cinema from the 1960s to 1980s with over 200+ films. A. Thirumugam — opposite M.G. 2x Filmfare South Best Tamil Actress wins.
Kanchana does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kanchana reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.